A group of students, researchers and alumni of Jadavpur University are manufacturing cost-effective, reusable, three-layered masks on the design provided by Centre for Appropriate Social Technologies (CAST), JU, to help people fight Covid-19. The scheme known as ‘People’s Initiative for Technology’ has engaged four tailors
As number of asymptomatic Corona patients are rising in India, West Bengal government has decided to start pool testing samples in low-risk zones which have reported 2% or lesser Covid-19 positive cases. This method will involve pooling in samples of five possible suspects, even though
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur has developed an affordable, plug-and-use and easily maintainable semi-automatic Ambu Bag ventilator system in close collaboration and supervision of clinical physicians. A bag valve mask (BVM) has been in use for more than fifty years and is usually named
An exclusive interview with Professor Ena Ray Banerjee, PhD, DSc, Professor Dept of Zoology University of Calcutta Immunology and Regenerative Medicine Research Unit. From how the COVID virus mutates, to how Indians can fight the COVID-19 better, Prof Banerjee gives an in-depth scientific view of
At a time when many frontline doctors and nurses are being ostracized by the society, here is another doctor of Kolkata whose name will forever be remembered by the family of a pregnant woman who would have died, had not he come to her rescue
Dear Humans, I am breathing at last, yes my wounds are healing too, my sky looks crystal clear, not a tinge of soot and smoke and my birds sing in glee. All my creatures have found their homes on the silent and abandoned city streets as
Like many Corona warriors across the world, Dr Niladri Konar, a doctor treating COVID-19 patients in a London Hospital, himself got infected by this deadly virus. However, the virus has failed to put him down. He not just won over the virus, his dedication to
Some great men are always remembered and some get lost in the pages of history. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was one such Indo-Portuguese author, poet and social reformer, whose contribution to Bengal’s social and freedom movement can never
It was only a couple of weeks ago when Bronx Zoo came up with a scary data that one of their tigers has been infected with COVID-19 as one of the zoo-keepers was infected with the virus. This sent ripples through every zoo authority, as
He had saved every penny of his income and built a hospital a couple of years ago in Baruipur for the poor and needy of the locality. Cab driver Md Saidul Lashkar has again come forward during these difficult times of crisis and has handed